John Tsiavis (b. 1977) is a photographer working across portraiture, entertainment, editorial and advertising projects. Tsiavis grew up in Sunshine, Melbourne and studied photography at RMIT. He began his career as a photographer at age twenty after producer Jane Scott contacted RMIT looking for someone to shoot stills for the Australian feature film Head On. He went on to work in the entertainment industry creating images for film such as Chopper, Ned Kelly and Jindabyne, musicals, theatre and television series including The Secret Life of Us and Summer Heights High. Tsiavis now works in Los Angeles, primarily as a portrait and fashion photographer and director of television commercials. His photographs have been published in high-end magazines including Harper's Bazaar, Rolling Stone, GQ and Marie Claire, and some of his entertainment clients include HBO, Disney, Sony Music and Warner Music. Tsiavis was a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award in 2011, and was shortlisted in the National Photographic Portrait Prize in 2010, 2013 and 2016. Over twenty of Tsiavis' photographs were displayed in the National Portrait Gallery’s 2014 exhibition PROMO: Portraits from Prime Time. His portraits of Chris Lilley, Bud Tingwell, Christos Tsiolkas, Tan Le and Jacki Weaver are in the Portrait Gallery's collection.
